Author: Jake Cohen (Page 1 of 3)

Hello everyone,

My apologies that I did not get this to you last week – I had some tech troubles coincide with some personal obligations and couldn’t get to this until tonight. As such, please take until this coming Wednesday to complete the assignment.

Your final assignment has two parts – to receive full credit you must complete both.

1) The first is a reflective post, with the category Blog Entry 3, where you reflect on the work that you have done in this course. Try to avoid simple observations such as “I liked this…” “I thought this course was good because…” and instead think about what you have learned and how you have learned it. Try also to avoid statements that begin with “Overall” or “Altogether”; think about specifics instead. We are asking you to do some writing here that is known as “meta-cognitive,” meaning you are thinking about how you are thinking (whoa….right?).

• Consider what you’ve learned (or not), and how you learned it, and whether that experience was meaningful or impactful because of the way you learned it.
• Consider all the assignments and work you’ve done, not just the two big projects.
• Consider not only the content of the course (ways of doing science, all the factual information, etc.), but also other less obvious elements of learning, such as working in a group, working on multiple simultaneous projects, managing the poster design/PowerPoint presentations, research, etc.

This post should be about 500 words maximum, but it’s OK if you go a little over.

2) The second is a peer assessment, in which we would like you to candidly assess both your own performance as well as the other members of your group. This will be done by completing the form below. Please know that this is 100% private, and no one but Dr. Greer and Jake can see it. We want your honest assessment of the group work breakdown, not to penalize any group members who did not pull their weight, but to understand how we can make group work function better in the future.

Have a great break!

Hi all,

I’m sure you all did great last Wednesday! These posters are all really well done and I’m happy you’ve all gotten them to the stage they’re at presently.

Please upload your poster to the site using the following steps:

1. Export your PowerPoint file to PDF. To do this, select “File”>”Save As” and then choose PDF from the dropdown menu at the bottom. Name your file with your last names separated by underscores ( _ ). Like this: cohen_greer_…
2. Create a new post using the category Final Poster. If you do not select this category, we won’t be able to see it!!
3. Click “Add Media” and then select your file. Instead of inserting the file into your post, copy the URL listed on the right. Then close out of this window without inserting the file into your post.
4. Paste the URL of your PDF directly into the post on its own line. So it should look like this: https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6462/2018/12/16195803/cohen_greer.pdf
5. Preview your post to make sure that the PDF is appearing correctly. If it is not, then try adding an “s” to the http:// so that it reads https://
6. Make sure you selected Final Poster as your category.
7. Publish! 

Following these steps correctly is part of your final grade for this project! If you are having any difficulty with any part of this process, or if your post is not displaying correctly, email Jake.

Hi everyone,

If you haven’t yet signed up for a poster printing time slot, make sure you do so ASAP. Poster printing closes next week and Thursday and Friday are already mostly full. Remember, for tomorrow and for next Wednesday, you will NOT be using your actual posters, you’ll still be presenting from a PowerPoint. The only time you will show your real poster is at the STEAM Festival.

After printing, you are responsible for bringing your poster with you to the STEAM Fest. You cannot leave it at Macaulay. Bring a tube, big rubber band, or trash bag that you can use to protect your poster.

-Jake

Hi everyone,

If your poster is about your Healthcare Innovation, you should have the MakerHub logo somewhere on the poster. I have attached it here. Please use this one and replace whatever logo you might already have on there. You don’t have to separately acknowledge in writing that you worked with them because it says it in the logo.

When using institutional or organizational logos, it’s always important to resize it using the corners of the image so that everything scales properly. Do not stretch (by pulling from the sides of the image) or otherwise crop the image.

-Jake

Hi class,

First of all, here are links to logos for your posters. You can change the size of these to fit your poster, but don’t change the proportions (in other words, use the corner of the image to resize, not the edges). Always right click (double-finger click on your Mac laptops) on the image, save it to your computer, and then insert the image into your poster. If you are doing your 3D printed Healthcare Innovation for your poster, you should have the MakerHub logo. If you are doing BioBlitz data for your poster, you should have the BioBlitz logo.

Macaulay and CUNY logos: https://macaulay.cuny.edu/macaulay-style-guide/

Baruch logos: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/OCMPA/logosandphotos.htm

MakerHub logos are available through MakerHub

BioBlitz logos: https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/steamfest/logos-for-posters/

Next, by tomorrow (Wednesday) please upload a copy of your PowerPoint to the website (1 per group). Jake will get back to you by Friday with some comments:

Hi everyone,

Since you are all working on your BioBlitz projects for tomorrow, we will postpone the poster drafts to Wednesday. You should, for Wednesday, be prepared to share the current status of your poster as a PowerPoint, and each group will get about 10 minutes to present their poster and receive commentary from the rest of the class and me and Dr. Greer. You don’t have to prepare anything for tomorrow other than the final BioBlitz report.

-Jake

Hi everyone,

I know that I recommended to you all to use easel.ly to make infographics, but I’ve just found out that unfortunately, they changed the pay structure within the last year or so and now it’s basically un-usable at the free level. I am very sorry to anyone who did work using this website already.

For infographics, I now recommend that you use Canva, and I have done a lot of work with this app in the past and would be happy to show you more about it once I get back on Monday.

-Jake

Hi all,

The aspirin lab is now uploaded, please review prior to class tomorrow which meets in room 825 at 17 Lexington. The entrance is on 23rd st., and give yourself plenty of time to get upstairs since the elevators can be crowded.

The two big projects we’re currently working on have their main pages updated, for BioBlitz and 3D Printing.

On the 3D printing page, you’ll see directions for turning in your 3D printing design both by emailing your TinkerCAD file to makerhub@baruch.cuny.edu and also submitting a PDF of the design to the website using the form.

On the BioBlitz page, you’ll see a list of tips for writing the various sections of your final report. Please read these carefully, it will give you all you need to know about what goes in each section and how it should look. If you have any questions, please email Jake and Dr. Greer. There is a form for submitting your final report, which is due Monday.

We will also email you comments on your data analysis and findings so you have something to work on as a revision before Monday.

-Jake